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This law was first created in 1979. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 290 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1979 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1984, chapter 590.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":223847,"object_type":"law","relational_id":59288,"identifier":"45.2-1034","token":"45.2\/II\/C\/10\/4\/45.2-1034","url":"\/45.2-1034\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/45.2-1034\/","token":"45.2\/II\/C\/10\/4\/45.2-1034","dublin_core":{"Title":" Eligible lands and water; priorities for expenditures","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 45.2-1034","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> Lands and water eligible for reclamation or drainage abatement expenditures under this article are those that were (i) mined for coal or (ii) affected by coal mining, waste banks, coal processing, or other coal mining processes, and were abandoned or left in an inadequate reclamation status and for which there is no continuing reclamation responsibility under state or federal law<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> The Director<\/span> shall establish priorities in the State Reclamation Plan for the expenditure of funds in conformance with the priorities set forth in § 403 of the federal act<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\n ELIGIBLE LANDS AND WATER; PRIORITIES FOR EXPENDITURES (\u00a7 45.2-1034)\n\nA. Lands and water eligible for reclamation or drainage abatement expenditures\nunder this article are those that were (i) mined for coal or (ii) affected by\ncoal mining, waste banks, coal processing, or other coal mining processes, and\nwere abandoned or left in an inadequate reclamation status and for which there\nis no continuing reclamation responsibility under state or federal law.\n\nB. The Director shall establish priorities in the State Reclamation Plan for the\nexpenditure of funds in conformance with the priorities set forth in § 403\nof the federal act.\n\nHISTORY: 1979, c. 290, \u00a7 45.1-262; 1984, c. 590; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}